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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Fresh
 
  Fresh as an apple-tree bloom.
            —William Allingham		  1
  Fresh as May-flowers.
            —Anacreon		  2
  Fresh as a buttercup.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Fresh as a cherub.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Fresh as a flower just blown.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Fresh as an egg from the farm.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Fresh as a November chrysanthemum.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Fresh as a sea breeze.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Fresh and charming as Hebe.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Fresh as if she had been born with the morning.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Fresh as a young head of lettuce.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Fresh as summer’s grass.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Fresh as the dawn.
            —Anonymous		  13
  Fresh as the dewy field.
            —Anonymous		  14
  Fresh as the firstlings o’ the year.
            —Anonymous		  15
  Fresh as Fiumicino’s foam.
            —Alfred Austin		  16
  Fresh and fragrant as a rose.
            —Philip James Bailey		  17
  Fresh as a sprouting spring upon the hills.
            —Philip James Bailey		  18
  As fresh as any flower.
            —English Ballad		  19
  Her face is as fresh as a frosty morning in Autumn.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  20
  Fresh as a white rosebud.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  21
  Fresh as dew.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  22
  Fresh as butter just from the churn.
            —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms		  23
  Fresh, as the floweret opening on the morn.
            —James Beattie		  24
  Fresher than the day-star.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  25
  Fresh as from Paradise.
            —Robert Browning		  26
              Lips to lips
Fresh as the wilding hedge-rose-cup there slips
The dewdrop out of.
            —Robert Browning		  27
  Fresh as the flow’r amid the sunny showr’s of May.
            —Michael Bruce		  28
Fresher than the morning dawn
When rising Phœbus first is seen.
            —Robert Burns		  29
  Fresh as a nursing mother.
            —Lord Byron		  30
  Fressh as a rose.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  31
  As fressh as faucon comen out of mewe.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  32
  As fressh as is the brighte someres day.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  33
  Fressh as is the monthe of May.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  34
  Fresh as sea-born Cythera.
            —Hartley Coleridge		  35
  Fresh as the foamy surf.
            —Eliza Cook		  36
            Fresh and as gay
As the fairest and sweetest, that blow
On the beautiful bosom of May.
            —William Cowper		  37
  All show’d as fresh, and faire, and innocent, as virgins to their lovers’ first survey.
            —Sir William Davenant		  38
  Fresh as a clover bud.
            —Lord De Tabley		  39
  Fresh as a lark.
            —Charles Dickens		  40
  Fresh as butter.
            —Charles Dickens		  41
  Fresh as a fresh young pear-tree blossoming.
            —Austin Dobson		  42
  Fresh as primrose buds.
            —Edward Dowden		  43
  As fresh as flovis that in May up spredis.
            —William Dunbar		  44
  As fresh as rain drops.
            —George Eliot		  45
  Fresh as the trickling rainbow in July.
            —Ralph Waldo Emerson		  46
  Fresh as the wells that stand in natural rock in summer woods or violet-scented grove.
            —Frederick William Faber		  47
  Fresh as early day.
            —Francis Fawkes		  48
  Fresh, like the larks, from a dew bath in the daisies.
            —S. Gertrude Ford		  49
  Fresh as a peach.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  50
  Fresh as the May-blown rose.
            —Richard Glover		  51
  Fresh as a blossom bathed by April rain.
            —Paul Hamilton Hayne		  52
  Fresh as the breeze blowing over the heather.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  53
  Fresh as the dews of our prime.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  54
  Fresh as April when the breezes blow.
            —Richard Monckton Milnes		  55
  Fresh and fine as a spring in winter.
            —Richard Hovey		  56
  Fresh as April’s heaven.
            —Victor Hugo		  57
  Fresh as a young girl.
            —Victor Hugo		  58
  Fresh as milk and roses.
            —Jean Ingelow		  59
  As fresh as the fruit on the tree.
            —Henry James		  60
  Fresh as the morning.
            —Ben Jonson		  61
  Fresher than berries of a mountain-tree.
            —John Keats		  62
  Fresh as Aurora’s blushing morn.
            —William King		  63
  Freshening as the morning air.
            —Charles M. S. McLellan		  64
  Fresh as a pippin.
            —Theophilus Marzials		  65
  Fresh as the drop of dew cradled at morn.
            —Gerald Massey		  66
  Fresh as the orchard apple.
            —George Meredith		  67
  Fresh as light from a star just discovered.
            —Thomas Moore		  68
  Fresh as Spring.
            —Coventry Patmore		  69
  Fresh as paint.
            —Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch		  70
  Fresh as the welling waters.
            —Samuel Rogers		  71
  Fresh as dew.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  72
  Fresh as the sun.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  73
  Fresh as the tropic rose.
            —Charles Sangster		  74
  As fresh as a May gowan.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  75
  Fresh as an old oak.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  76
  Fresh as a bridegroom.
            —William Shakespeare		  77
  Fresh as Dian’s visage.
            —William Shakespeare		  78
  Fresh as morning’s dew distill’d on flowers.
            —William Shakespeare		  79
  Fresh as flower of May.
            —Edmund Spenser		  80
  Fresh as flowers in medow greene doe grow.
            —Edmund Spenser		  81
  Fresh as morning rose.
            —Edmund Spenser		  82
  Fresh as a four-year-old.
            —R. S. Surtees		  83
  Fresh as farthing from the mint.
            —Jonathan Swift		  84
  Fresh as the spirit of sunrise.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  85
  Fresh as a sea-flower.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  86
  Fresh as a man’s recollections of boyhood.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  87
  Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  88
  Fresh as the foam, new-bathed in Paphian wells.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  89
  Fresh and ruddy as a parson’s daughter.
            —Bonnell Thornton		  90
  Fresh as a daisy.
            —Leo Tolstoy		  91
  Fresh as Eden.
            —Henry Vaughan		  92
  Fresh as Spring’s earliest violet.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  93
  Fresh as the moon.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  94
  Fresh as the lovely form of youthful May, when nymphs and graces in the dance unite.
            —Christopher Martin Wieland		  95
  Fresh as banner bright, unfurl’d to music suddenly.
            —William Wordsworth		  96
  Fresh as a lark mounting at break of day.
            —William Wordsworth		  97
 
 
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